Learn how to adjust sentence, word, and paragraph spacing automatically while pasting in Word using in-built setting, GPEDIT, and REGEDIT.

Tips To change the line spacing of only a portion of your Word document, highlight the text you want to change before tweaking your Paragraph options.

You can double space in Word for an entire document or selected paragraphs to increase the amount of space between your lines of text.

In this article, I’ll show you how to change a few simple default properties: the font, the font size, and a web-based spacing property. I’m using Word 2016 desktop on a Windows 10 64-bit system.

Karen Binns asked how to change Microsoft Word’s default font to something other than “12 pt. Times New Roman.”In Word 2007-2010 click on the tiny down-arrow at the far right of the “Font ...

Older versions of Word buried line-spacing settings inside formatting menus, but in Word 2007 and 2010, they're hiding in plain sight.